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Here is a nice video clip of Tanya Winters (initially in wheelchair) and A.G. Rodriguez (initially on crutches) dancing in Austin, Texas: “Mixed Ability Dance Improvisation”

Here’s a lovely video of my friend Daniel and his friend Rana called “Symbiosis.” (As an aside, Daniel is in the midst of a project to create a dance video a week for 2012. More information on the project and how you can help may be found here.)

“In 1986 I talked to this young man who introduced himself as a recreational contacter. And I thought “Recreational contacter! Oh no, that’s what it’s becoming.” In just fifteen years it had gone from an art exploration and a performance thing to a recreation, a dating game—a sport of some sort. And I realized that I was being quite unreasonable, and that if I wanted it to be anything more than that—or if I wanted strongly for it to be something other than that—it was up to me to define what that might be.” — Steve Paxton in “500 Words”

Here’s a beautiful video of contact improvisation from Polish artist Stanislaw Wojcik: Warsztaty Contact Improvisation – Burdąg 2012

Here’s a nice video clip of Noam Carmeli and Chico Katsube dancing during the Spring CI workshop in Tokyo in April, 2012: Noam’s CI workshop in Tokyo